Re: Fuel Efficient Cars (was Oil Economics)

From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Thu Feb 06 2003 - 19:09:45 MST

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    Michael Roy Ames wrote:
    >
    > I 'googled' the Geo Metro discovered that it was discontinued by GM in
    > 1997. I was flabbergasted! This is a really good car, and I even like
    > its shape! Mine is a 1996 with almost 50,000miles on the clock... and
    > nothing has ever broken! North America car buyers *used to* have
    > options... I wonder why GM dropped this one? Michael Roy Ames

    My brother's Geo has 130kmi and still runs.

    Our sadly litigious society assigns blame to whoever has the
    deepest pockets, which is in this case the manufacturer.
    Any accident a Geo driver suffers, the chance of injury
    is high, so the bonehead jury figures that is somehow GM's
    fault. GM decided the little bit of profit they made
    on the Geo wouldn't cover the liability. spike



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